Epigenetic Principles of Evolution
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 847
ISBN-13: 9780124158511
Subjects: Child development; Natural history; Medicine; Science; Evolution (Biology); Epigenesis
Description: This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this book demonstrates the primacy of epigenetic mechanisms and epigenetic information in generating evolutionary novelties. The author convincingly supports his theory with a host of examples from the most varied fields of biology, by emphasizing changes in developmental pathways as the basic source of evolutionary change in metazoans. Original and thought-provoking -€a radically new theory that overcomes the present dif.
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Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Epigenetic Principles of Evolution; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; I: Epigenetic Basis of Metazoan Heredity; 1 Control Systems and Determination of Phenotypic Traits in Metazoans; The Thermodynamic Enigma of Living Systems; On the Meaning of Biological Information; Genetic Versus Epigenetic Information; Novel Properties of the Biological Information; The Control System in Metazoans and the von Neumann's Machine; Central Control of Animal Physiology; Neural Control of Water Content; Neural Control of Glucose and Insulin Biosynthesis; Neural Control of Thermoregulation.; title: Central Control of Animal BehaviorNeural Control of Locomotion; Neural Determination of Monogamy in Prairie Voles; Central Control of Metazoan Morphology; Control of Expression of Nonhousekeeping Genes; Chromatin Remodeling in Control of Gene Expression; Extracellular Control of Signal Transduction Pathways and Transcription Factors; Hormonal Control of Secreted Proteins and Growth Factors; Neural Control of the Endocrine Function; Examples of Central Control of Metazoan Morphology; Development of the Mammary Gland; Central Determination of Body Mass; Central Determination of Normal Obesity.; title: The Integrated Control SystemThe Hypothesis of the Epigenetic System of Heredity and its Predictions; References; 2 Neural Manipulation of Gene Expression; Predetermined Versus Manipulative Expression of Genes; Processing of External/Internal Stimuli in the CNS Generates Information for Adaptive Phenotypic Responses; Molecular Mechanisms of Manipulative Expression of Genes in the CNS; Epigenetic Manipulation of Genetic Information in the CNS; Selective Elimination of Genetic Information in the CNS; Neural Circuits Generate Epigenetic Information.; title: Neural Processing of Stimuli Generates Information for Postphylotypic DevelopmentProcessing-Dependent Expression of Genes and the Blood-Brain Barrier; Generation of Information for Adaptive Camouflage in Xenopus; What Do Neural Circuits Do: Sum Up Stimuli or Figure Out Adaptive Responses?; References; 3 Epigenetic Control of Reproduction; Epigenetic Control of Reproductive Physiology and Behavior; Neuroendocrine Regulation of the Gonadal Function in Insects; Local Neural Control of the Reproductive Function in Insects; Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproductive Function in Vertebrates.; title: Local Neural Control of the Reproductive Function in VertebratesEpigenetic Control of Gametogenesis; Neural Control of Oogenesis in Insects and Gastropod Molluscs; Neural Control of Oogenesis in Vertebrates; Neuroendocrine Control via the Brain-Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis; Local Control by Ovarian Innervation; Neural Control of Spermato-/Spermiogenesis; Neural Control of Deposition of Parental Epigenetic Information in Gametes; Neural Control of Deposition of Maternal Factors in Insect Oocytes; Neural Control of Deposition in the Egg Cell of Maternal Factors via Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis.